10:55 PM,
Jul. 30, 2013

Phil Hughes is one of the players the Yankees could trade if they want to add another bat, but his trade value is not considered very high.

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Chad Jennings

For a Yankees team stuck in the middle, things are supposed to work the way they worked on Sunday. Derek Jeter, back from the disabled list, homered in his first at-bat. Alfonso Soriano, a trade addition three days earlier, hit a walk-off, game-winning single in the ninth.

"Ultimately, trades and reinforcements from the disabled list will put us in much better position to make the playoffs," general manager Brian Cashman had said just two days earlier.

That's the plan, or at least, that's the company line: Reinforcements are coming, the franchise will do what it takes and the playoffs are ...